Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Super-Earth TOI-561b is about 40 times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the sun.
The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.
Dubbed HD 143811 AB b, the interstellar entity is a gas giant that’s located some 446 light-years away from Earth in a galaxy ...
An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...
Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.
The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life ...
Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...
Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...
In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...
Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...